New Music Festival, Jan 29 2014

New Music Festival: Unholy Noise

with compositions by Frank Zappa, Glenn Branca and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Pre-Concert:

6–7 PM Piano Nobile
A NMF / Spur Festival Event
Composers’ Panel with Glenn Branca.

7-7:20 PM Piano Nobile
Performance by Greenhouse
(Curran Faris, guitar & laptop).

Post-Concert:

Plug In ICA Lounge (Piano Nobile)
Q+A with Glenn Branca and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Featured in the Plug In ICA Lounge is the work of photographer David Wityk, featuring his exhibition Main Street Winnipeg: Every Block Between Portage and Inkster Avenues, 2008 – 2011.

For more information on the Spur Festival, click here.

The Icelandic Festival of Manitoba is proud to sponsor the reception this evening as we begin a year of special events and activities to celebrate the 125^th anniversary of the Icelandic Festival in 2014.

Artists:
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra;
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Valgeir Sigurðsson, laptop (1)

Repertoire:

• Frank Zappa (US)
“The Perfect Stranger “

• Glenn Branca (US)
Free Form – Canadian Premiere

• Valgeir Sigurðsson (IS)
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Five –World Premiere (1)
The Government of Iceland and The Icelandic Festival of Manitoba
commissioned Valgeir Sigurdsson’s Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Five

• Glenn Branca (US)
Symphony No. 11– North American Premiere